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United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974
Highway Energy Conservation and Safety Act - Requires the Secretary of Transportation to withhold funding of Federal-aid highway projects from any State which has a maximum speed limit on any public highway of over 55 miles per hour.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1974
Extends, under the Water Resources Development Act, for one year the time in which the States of Illinois and Missouri may enter into a contract, either jointly or individually, with the city of Chester, Illinois, for the operation, maintenance, and repair of the Chester Bridge.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1974
Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act - Declares the purposes of this Act to be: (1) to characterize Federal/non-Federal relationships in the acquisition of property and services and in the furnishing of assistance by the Federal Government; and (2) to establish Government-wide standards for selection of appropriate legal instruments to achieve uniformity in the use by the executive agencies of such instruments, a clear definition of the relationships they reflect, and a better understanding of the responsibilities of the parties. Requires each executive agency to use a procurement contract as the legal instrument reflecting a relationship between the Federal Government and a State or local government or other recipient whenever the principal purpose of the agreement is the acquisition, by purchase, lease, or barter, of property or services for the direct benefit or use of the Federal Government. Requires each executive agency to use a grant agreement as the legal instrument reflecting a relationship between the Federal Government and a State or local government or other recipient whenever the principal purpose of the relationship is the transfer of money, property, services, or anything of value to the State or local government; and whenever no substantial involvement is anticipated between the executive agency, acting for the Federal Government, and the State or local government or other recipient during performances of the contemplated activity. Requires each executive agency to use a cooperative agreement as the legal instrument reflecting a relationship between the Federal Government and a State or local government or other recipient whenever the principal purpose of the relationship is the transfer of money, property, services, or anything of value to the State or local government; and whenever substantial involvement is anticipated between the executive agency, acting for the Federal Government, and the State or local government or other recipient during performance of the contemplated activity. Directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in cooperation with the executive agencies, to undertake a study to develop a better understanding of alternative means of implementing Federal assistance programs, and to determine the feasibility of developing a comprehensive system of guidance for Federal assistance programs.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1974
Revises the provisions of the Older Americans Act relating to long-term care facilities to place special emphasis on the establishment and expansion of home health services and to strengthen access by the community to long-term care facilities. Requires State agencies to establish and maintain an ombudsman office which will receive and investigate complaints from residents, patients, and the relatives and friends of residents and patients in long-term care facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1974
Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in consultation with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, under the National Housing Act, to provide insurance for loans to finance improvements to long-term care facilities required to correct deficiencies identified in State surveys and Federal certification procedures.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1974
Provides, under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, for the establishment of a Nursing Home Affairs Advisory Council. Requires that 6 of the 11 council members be representatives of the public who are eligible for medical assistance under a State plan approved under title XIX, at lease one of whom is a resident of a long-term care facility. Makes it the function of the Council to provide advice and recommendations for the consideration of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare on ways to improve the quality of care provided by skilled nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities, or other long-term care facilities, which provide services for which payment may be made under title XVIII or under State plans approved under title XIX (Medicaid).
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1974
Provides for the furnishing of 100 percent of the costs of rehabilitative services to inpatients of long-term care facilities. Authorizes necessary appropriations for such purpose. Prohibits Federal funds for long-term care, under titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, for long-term care institutions not having a rehabilitative services program in effect after June 30, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1974
Makes permanent the provisions regarding payments to States for training of personnel to inspect long-term care institutions pursuant to the Medicare and Medicaid provisions of the Social Security Act. Provides for publication of information on charges and the rating of such institutions. Requires such institutions to provide periodic in-service training for their nonprofessional employees in order to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1974
States that as a condition of approval of a State plan under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, the requirement is imposed that: (1) in determining for purposes of the administration of the State plan, the need for continued care in a particular skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility (which provides services for which payment may be made under the State plan) of an individual who is entitled to medical assistance under the State plan, and has, for a period of one hundred and twenty days or more, been an inpatient of such facility, a determination which would result in discharge or transfer from such facility shall be made only if in the judgment of a physician after consultation with other appropriate professional personnel, such discharge or transfer would be in the best interest of such individual's physical and mental health, and (2) in making such judgment and such determination proper consideration shall be given, not only to the mental and physical condition of such individual, but also to the capability of the facility to meet his particular needs, and to the impact which discharge or transfer from the particular facility would, as a practical matter, have on his general well-being in light of his age, length of stay in the facility, family situation, mental attitude, and other relevant factors, and (3) the State agency shall take appropriate affirmative action to assure that any individual discharged or transferred from a facility shall have the benefit of a planned program of information and counseling concerning such discharge or transfer designed to assist him in adjusting to the change in his care and surroundings and to minimize the personal stress which may accompany such change. Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to conduct, on a continuing basis in all States with plans approved under this title, investigative and oversight activities designed to determine whether there exists any basis to support a finding: (1) that the plan has been so changed that it no longer complies with the provision of this title; and (2) that in the administration of the plan there is a failure to comply substantially with any such provision. Provides that when such activities result in observations indicating that there does exist a reasonable basis for such a finding, the Secretary shall call upon the State agency to appear at a public hearing, scheduled so as to allow reasonable notice to the State agency, to give an accounting of its administration of the plan with respect to those matters in which the Secretary has found indications of noncompliance.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1974
Equal Credit Opportunity Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to require that financial institutions and other firms engaged in the extension of credit make that credit equally available to all creditworthy customers without regard to sex or marital status. Makes it unlawful for any creditor to discriminate against any applicant on the basis of sex or marital status. Defines the terms used in the Act. Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to prescribe regulations to carry out the purposes of this Act. Makes changes in specified Acts of Congress in order to make those Acts comply with the purposes of this Act. Directs the Federal Trade Commission to enforce the requirements of this Act to the extent that they will not be enforced by another Government agency after enactment of this Act. Provides for the assessment by a United States District Court of actual and punitive damages in any action brought against a violator of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1974
Establishes a permanent Advisory Council on Social Security to advise the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare on the various Social Security trust funds and on the adequacy of benefits under the various Social Security programs.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1974
Age Discrimination in Employment Amendments - States that the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with respect to unfair employment practices shall include discrimination on account of age with regard to persons at least forty years of age but less than sixty-five. Provides that the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Commission of Civil Rights, shall establish and carry out a program to prevent discrimination by any recipients of Federal assistance, including Government contractors and subcontractors. Makes the Age Discrimination in Employment Act applicable to those employers engaged in an industry affecting commerce with twenty or more employees. Exempts persons elected to public office, their personal staff, and immediate advisers from such provision. Provides for the nondiscrimination on account of age in Federal Government employment, including employment by the District of Columbia and the Library of Congress. Authorizes the Civil Service Commission to enforce the nondiscriminatory policy with respect to age in Government employment. Provides that any person, after thirty days notice of intent to do so, may file a civil action in Federal district court to enforce the policy announced by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1974
Eliminates, the special dependency requirement as a prerequisite for men to receive husband's or widower's benefits under title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act. Provides for the payment of benefits to divorced husbands and surviving divorced husbands on the same terms as applied to divorced wives. Provides for the payment of benefits to widower fathers with minor children on the basis of the deceased wife's earning record. Provides for the same treatment of men and women, including those born before 1913, with regard to the number of quarters of coverage needed for insured status and computation of average earnings on which benefits are based.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1974
Provides, under the Wagner-Peyser Act, for employment counseling and a special action program designed to identify employment opportunities for older workers as well as recruitment and placement services for such workers.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1974
Provides, under title II (Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, for the earnings of a husband and wife in each year to be combined up to the maximum which may be credited for the year for purposes of determining entitlement to title II social security benefits. Provides for both the husband and wife to receive a benefit (before any reduction due to early retirement) equal to 75 percent of the age-65 benefit based on combined earnings. Provides for widows to receive a benefit based on the combined earnings. Provides for the earnings records of the couple to be separated on divorce. Provides for benefits to be payable to the couple only.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1974
Revises the Internal Revenue Code by: (1) permitting the deduction of all expenses for medical care of a taxpayer and his spouse if either of them has attained age 65 during the taxable year; (2) allowing a credit or refund of social security taxes withheld from the wages of taxpayers aged 65 whose wages do not exceed $200 multiplied by the number of months in the taxable year; (3) allowing as a deduction, in the case of an individual, the amount of retirement income received by that individual during the taxable year; and (4) increasing the amount of the personal exemption allowable to retired taxpayers.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1974
Lowers from 72 to 70 the age at which all earnings become excluded in determining excess earnings under title II (Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act. Prescribes exempt amounts for each month for taxable years 1976-1984 (after which all amounts shall be exempt) in determining the amount of outside earnings which may be excluded for purposes of entitlement to benefits under title II of the Social Security Act. (Amends 42 U.S.C. 203(f))
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1974
Retirement income improvement Act - States that the Congress hereby declares it to be the policy of the United States to eliminate poverty among older Americans and to seek ways of assuring that the retirement income of such Americans to the extent practicable will equal, in purchasing power, their income immediately prior to retirement. Establishes a National Commission on Retirement Income. States that the functions of the Commission shall be to make a complete study and investigation of the ways and means: (1) to eliminate poverty among older Americans; (2) to assure all retired older Americans a retirement income greater than the poverty line income established pursuant to the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964; (3) to assure at the earliest practicable time to all retired individuals a total retirement income that is in excess of the poverty line income established pursuant to the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 and not less than an amount equal to 50 per cent of the income of such individuals in the years immediately preceding their retirement; (4) to establish reasonable and appropriate retirement income levels designed to protect retired individuals againist excessive diminution of purchasing power after their retirement in order to eliminate the desirability or necessity for Federal programs to supplement retirement income; and (5) to assure all retired individuals access to a retirement income from public and private sources which ultimately will be substantially equal in purchasing power to the income of such individuals in the years immediately prior to their retirement to protect such individuals against a drastic reduction in purchasing power upon retirement. Directs the Commission to submit a report to the President and the Congress not later than one year after the effective date of this resolution on the results of its investigation, together with recommendations for additional legislation. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this joint resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1974
Title I: Federal Privacy Board - Establishes the Federal Privacy Board in the executive branch of the Government and specifies the composition of the Board. Enumerates the functions of the Board, including to publish a Data Base Directory of the United States containing the name and characteristics of each personal information system. Specifies the powers of the Board, including the power to conduct inspections of information systems at reasonable times, and to order an organization to desist from acts in violation of rules or orders promulgated under this Act. Title II: Standards and Management Systems For Handling Information Related To Individuals - Establishes requirements for the collection, maintenance, use and dissemination by Federal agencies, or State or local governments, or any other organization maintaining an information system, of personal information collected for administrative, statistical-reporting, and research purposes. Requires any organization maintaining or proposing to establish an information system for personal information to give notice of the existence and character of each existing system once a year to the Federal Privacy Board. Specifies the elements of public notice required under this Act to be contained in such notice. States that organizations maintaining personal information shall inform individuals asked to supply personal information of consequences of providing or not providing such information, shall request permission of a data subject to disseminate such information, and grant such individual the right to inspect and to know all personal information about the individual, the nature and sources of the information, and the recipients of personal information about such individual. Provides methods for the challenging, correction, and explanation of personal information by the subject of such information. Requires each such organization maintaining a personal information system to inform all data subjects of the fact within two years of enactment of this Act by notice containing specified elements. Exempts information determined to be vital to the national defense, contained in active criminal investigatory files compiled by Federal, State, or local law enforcement agencies, and that maintained by the news media (except information relating to the employees of such organizations) from the provisions of this Act. States that it shall be unlawful for any organization to require an individual to disclose or furnish his social security account number for any activity, unless the disclosure is required by law. Title III: Miscellaneous - Defines the terms used in this Act. States that any revelation of trade secrets required under this Act shall be treated as confidential by those to whom they are made. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1974
Revises the Social Security Act by increasing the increment in old-age benefits payable to individuals who delay their retirement beyond age 65.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1974
Community Anticrime Assistance Act - Declares it to be the policy of the Congress to provide anticrime assistance grants to cities, combinations of cities, public agencies and nonprofit private agencies for the purpose of involving citizens and the private sectors in cooperative anticrime programs with local governments. Title I: Grants to Cities and Public Agencies - Authorizes the Director of Community Relations, in consultation and cooperation with the Administrator of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration in the Department of Justice to make grants to, or cooperative arrangements with cities and combinations of cities with a population of not less than one hundred thousand and public agencies thereof, including regional planning organizations, to meet all or part of the cost of establishing or operating, including the cost of planning, programs designed to carry out the purpose of this title. Provides that grants and cooperative arrangements made under this title may be made to carry out programs including: (1) programs to encourage the participation of industry, business, labor unions, and other private enterprises in crime prevention efforts of the city and the neighborhood in which they are located; (2) the recruiting and training of police-community relations officers, which includes the development of programs of police training and education to sensitize police to the needs of the community; (3) the recruiting and training of community service officers to serve with and assist police departments in the discharge of their duties through such activities as recruiting police officers, improvement of police community relations and grievance resolution mechanisms; and (4) the recruiting, organization, and training of citizen preventive patrols for the purpose of patrolling apartment buildings, neighborhoods, and schools. Provides that grants and cooperative arrangements under this title shall be made only upon an application to the Director containing specified assurances, including: (1) satisfactory assurances that such applicant will place special emphasis upon programs, which involve disadvantaged persons and minority groups in the criminal justice system; and (2) satisfactory assurances that such applicant will make special effort to assure that programs established under this title are directed to the areas of the city with the highest incidence of crime. Title II: Grants to Nonprofit Private Agencies - Authorizes the Director to make grants to, or cooperative arrangements with, nonprofit private agencies to meet all or part of the cost of establishing or operating: (1) programs to encourage the reporting of crime and the marking and identification of personal property; (2) to enhance the delivery of social services into neighborhoods such as the removal of waste, street cleaning, building inspection, recreational facilities, and improved street lighting; (3) to provide volunteer escorts for elderly citizens and other persons requiring assistance to and from their residences in high crime areas; (4) to provide counseling to ex-offenders, narcotics addicts, and persons on probation; (5) programs to improve communication between the community and police departments; and (6) to provide alternatives to incarceration (including release to the custody of community programs) for persons convicted of minor or victimless crimes. Title III: Administration - Directs the Director to require of applicants under this Act to submit: (1) a description of the purpose of this program; (2) a description of the anticipated use of funds under the grant; (3) a description of the geographic area of the community in which the program will be carried out and the incidence of crime in such area; (4) a description of the extent that the program anticipates assistance, financial or otherwise, from departments or agencies of the Federal, State, or local governments; and (5) a description of the anticipated number of citizens who will participate in the program or be benefited by its operation. Provides that the Director and the Administrator of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration shall work together in the management, evaluation, monitoring and auditing of programs funded pursuant to this Act. Directs the Director to provide technical assistance to cities, combinations of cities, public agencies, and nonprofit private agencies either directly or through contracts with other Federal departments or agencies to enable such recipients to fully participate in all programs available under this Act. Authorizes the Director, on the application of any person claiming to be aggrieved by the denial of assistance under this Act, to give such person a public hearing to determine whether such person was so aggrieved. Provides that if the Director determines such person was aggrieved, he shall grant, in whole or in part, the assistance with respect to which such hearing was held. Provides that not more than one-third of any grants made under this Act shall be used for the lease or rental of any building or space therein. Provides that no part of any grant may be used to purchase buildings or land for research, except to the extent such research is incidental to the carrying out of programs under this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated for grants and cooperative arrangements under title I of this Act $25,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1974 and 1975. Authorizes to be appropriated for grants and cooperative arrangements under title II of this Act $25,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1974 and 1975. Title IV: Prohibition on Use of Weapons - States that no part of any appropriation under this Act may be expended for the use of weapons by civilian personnel in the programs or activities authorized by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1974
Provides for cost-of-living increases in the benefits provided under the program of supplemental security income for the aged, blind, and disabled under title XVI of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974
Revises the procedures utilized in the procurement of property and services by the Government where the amount involved does not exceed $10,000 (presently $2,500).
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974
Authorizes the President to issue a proclamation designating the month of May 1974, as "National Arthritis Month".
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1974
Designates the premises occupied by the Chief of Naval Operations as the official residence of the Vice President, effective upon the termination of service of the incumbent Chief of Naval Operations. Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to provide for the care, maintenance, repair, improvement, alteration, and furnishing of the official residence and grounds. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary from time to time to carry out the foregoing purposes. Expresses the sense of Congress that living accommodations, generally equivalent to those available to the highest ranking officer on active duty in each of the other military services, should be provided for the Chief of Naval Operations. Repeals the Federal law authorizing the planning, design, construction, furnihsing, and maintenance of an official residence for the Vice President of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1974
Provides, under the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act, that no decree, judgment, or order, entered against any person in the military service during the period of such service or for thirty days thereafter, resulting in the termination of such person's parental rights with respect to any child, shall be vacated, set aside, or reversed after a final judgment or decree has been entered in an adoption proceeding with respect to that child, provided such military person was given reasonable notice.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1974
Authorizes the head of any agency, with the concurrence of such agent as the President may designate, to determine and fix the minimum and maximum limits of age within which an original appointment may be made to a position as a law enforcement officer or firefighter. Defines the terms law enforcement officer and firefighter. States that a law enforcement officer or a firefighter who is otherwise eligible for immediate retirement shall be separated from the service on the last day of the month in which he becomes 55 years of age and completes 20 years of service if then over that age. Authorizes the head of an agency. when in his judgment the public interest so requires, to exempt an employee from automatic separation until the employee becomes 60 years of age.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1974
National Transportation Safety Board Independence and Improvement Act - Removes the National Transportation Safety Board from the auspices of the Department of Transportation and establishes it as an independent agency within the executive branch of the Government. Enumerates powers granted to the Board in order to carry out its function. Specifies that the board is authorized to employ experts and consultants as provided by law, appoint advisory committees, make contracts, and take such other actions as may be required. States that the Board may hold hearings and that the process of the Board is recognizable and punishable by any court of law with proper jurisdiction. Lists the powers of duly designated employees, officers, and agents relating to the conduct of surface transportation accidents. Authorizes the Board to carry out a statewide motor vehicle accidents demonstration project in a State representative of the conditions and highways existing in the Nation. Declares that the purpose of such project is to determine if a greater focus on motor vehicle accidents by the Board would significantly reduce the number of motor vehicle accidents and fatalities. Authorizes the appropriation of $4,000,000 for this project for fiscal year 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1974
Requires, under title XVIII of the Social Security Act (Health Insurance for the Aged), skilled nursing facilities under the medicare program and the medicaid program to provide medical social services.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1974
Authorizes the President to designate April 21 through April 28 as "Earth Week, 1974".
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1974
Exempts, under the District of Columbia Sales Tax Act, the sale of food or beverages for use in the operation, by a nonprofit private voluntary organization, of a nonprofit food service program from the imposition of the sales tax.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1974
Makes it the sense of the Congress that: (1) the National Endowment for the Arts should take a leadership role in advocating special provisions for the handicapped in cultural facilities and programs; (2) private interests and governments at the State and local levels should take into account the intent of Congress in building or renovating cultural facilities; (3) the National Endowment for the Arts and all of the program areas within the Endowment should be mindful of the intent and purposes of Public Law 90-480 and of this resolution as they formulate their own guidelines and as they review proposals from the field; and (4) all individuals and groups associated with production and presentation of cultural activities should give consideration to all the ways in which they can further promote and implement the goal of making cultural facilities and activities accessible to Americans who are physically handicapped.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1974
Allied Services Act - Title I: Human Services Planning Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to State governors or agencies to plan, coordinate, and consolidate human services programs within the State. Defines human services as services provided to individuals or their families to help them achieve, maintain, or support the highest level of personal independence and economic self-sufficiency. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct evalutations, directly or by grant or contract, of programs for the coordinated provision of services and to provide such technical assistance as may be necessary to assist in the planning or operation of such programs. Sets forth the criteria for participation in the program established under this Act for States and for local agencies. Sets forth the criteria for local allied services plans to be approved and incorporated into the State allied services plan. Provides that in order for a State to be eligible to participate in the program established under this Act for any fiscal year, a State allied services plan must be submitted which describes the current status of the coordinated provision of services within the State and the steps planned for such year and thereafter. Sets forth the criteria for approval of such plan by the Secretary. Title II: Administrative Support Services - Allows the Secretary to make grants to States which have in effect State plans approved under this Act or through such States to local agencies which have local plans approved by such States, to assist in meeting the initial costs of allying or consolidating administrative support services and management functions necessary to facilitate the allied delivery of human services where funds to cover such costs cannot be obtained from other sources. Title III: Special Authorities - Sets forth regulations for the transfer of funds (provided by the Secretary) within the State. Provides that where funds are advanced for a single project or program pursuant to more than one statutory authority or by more than one Federal agency, any one Federal agency may be designated to act for all in administering the funds advanced. Provides that five years after the date of enactment of this Act the Secretary shall make a report to the Congress on the activities that have been carried out under this Act, including his evaluation of those activities and his recommendations with respect to appropriate legislation dealing with allied delivery of human services.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Impoundment Prohibition Act - Provides that in apportioning any appropriation, reserves may be established solely to provide for contingencies, or to effect savings whenever savings are made possible by or through changes in requirements or greater efficiency of operations. States that reserves shall not be established for fiscal policy purposes or to achieve less than the full objectives and scope of programs enacted and funded by Congress. Authorizes the Comptroller General to bring a civil action in the United States Court for the District of Columbia to enforce the provisions of this Act. Provides that nothing contained in this Act shall be interpreted as constituting a ratification or approval of any reservation of budget authority by the President or any other Federal employee, in the past or in the future, unless done pursuant to statutory authority in effect at the time of such reservation. (Amends 31 U.S.C. 665)
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Provides for posthumous restoration of full rights of citizenship to General Robert E. Lee.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1974
Makes it the sense of the Senate that the Washington Energy Conference should consider: (1) conservation measures in major oil consuming countries which are necessary to reduce demand, and should be a major part of the policy adopted in concert by the oil consuming nations; (2) an effective plan for the emergency sharing of oil resources which could be acted on subject to the constitutional processes of each country; (3) guidelines for bilateral agreements between individual oil consuming and oil producing countries, which in the present situation of embargo and skyrocketing prices could prove very harmful to the interests of the major oil consuming nations, and could incur the danger of introducing excessive and sophisticated arms into the oil producing nations beyond their legitimate needs for their own security; (4) coordination of research efforts in developing conservation practices and alternative sources of energy; (5) the responsibility for and the means to help to alleviate the plight of the developing countries in the oil crisis; and (6) closer coordination of fiscal and monetary policies to prevent excessive strain on the international monetary systems and the currencies of oil importing countries.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1974
Women's Equal Educational Opportunity Act - Declares that sex discrimination is detrimental to the Nation's welfare because it limits the potential of all citizens, and women in particular; that the elimination of sex discrimination from public education is in the National interest; and that federally-supported education programs should be used to ensure women equal educational opportunity. Requires, under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, that State plans for Title II school library and textbook grants setting forth criteria to be used in the selection of library resources, textbooks and other instructional materials provided under Title II include those designed to preclude sex bias. Requires that such State plans provide assurances that Federal funds made available under such Act for any fiscal year shall be used, on a priority basis and where possible, in the acquisition of non-sex-biased library resources, textbooks, and other instructional materials. Allows funds under ESEA's Title III - Supplementary Educational Centers and Service-to be used for demonstration projects promoting new approaches to expand educational opportunities for women, including comprehensive physical education programs and sports activities for women. States that not less than 15 percent of the funds granted under ESEA in any fiscal year shall be used for programs or projects designed to meet the special educational needs of women. Allows, under ESEA's Title V - Grants to Strengthen State Departments of Education, funds apportioned to the States to be used for programs promoting equal educational opportunities for women, the elimination, reduction or prevention of sex discrimination in education and public information activities to increase the awareness of educational personnel and the public concerning problems relating to sex discrimination. Requires that in using funds reserved for special projects to develop State leadership in education, priority consideration be given to projects designed to increase the proportion of women in leadership positions and to promote equal educational opportunities for women. Authorizes funds for the improvement of post-secondary education activities designed to improve the status of women in post-secondary education. Specifies programs to meet the needs of women as one of the methods by which the National Institute of Education shall seek to improve education. Requires, under the Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965, that consider theation be given to the capability and willingness of institutions of higher education to provide effective community service programs designed to improve the status of women. Expands the uses of HEA funds to include programs designed to increase the proportion of women serving as school administrators, and programs to train teachers and other personnel. Expands the criteria for making leadership development awards to include encouraging the participation of women in vocational education leadership. Increases, under the Vocational Education Act (VEA) of 1963, the eligible purposes of grants for State vocational education programs to include the training of students of both sexes for occupations dominated by the other sex. Requires that State plans consider the need to ensure the training of students for occupations traditionally dominated by one sex. Includes VEA programs to include occupational aspirations and opportunities by eliminating barriers based on sex. Requires that State plans under VEA include provisions for all persons who have use for skills relating to the establishment and maintenance of the home. Includes, under VEA, the development and dissemination of vocational educational materials which increase awareness of the changing role of women in the world of work and also requires that curriculum materials developed or disseminated under VEA be free of sex biases.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1974
Provides, under title XVIII of the Social Security Act, for coverage under medicare for routine Papanicolaou tests for the diagnosis of uterine cancer.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1974
Makes it the sense of the Congress that the President direct the Secretary of State to bring to the immediate attention of the Soviet Government the deep and growing concern among citizens of the United States over the plight of Simas Kudirka and to urge his release from imprisonment and his return to his family. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President of the United States forward a copy of this resolution to the United States Representative to the United Nations for transmission to the Commission on Human Rights of the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1974
Requires the Armed Forces to provide special educational and health services to dependents of members serving on active duty who are deaf, hard of hearing, seriously emotionally disturbed, moderately or severely mentally retarded, crippled, or have a speech or health impairment or specific learning disability requiring special education and related services. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1079 (d))
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1974
Extends the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, established by S. Res. 281, Ninetieth Congress, through February 28, 1975. Authorizes the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs in studying matters pertaining to the lack of food, medical assistance, and other related necessities of life and health from March 1, 1974, through February 28, 1975, in its discretion: (1) to make expenditures from the contingent fund of the Senate, (2) to employ personnel, (3) to subpena witnesses and documents, (4) with the prior consent of the Government department or agency concerned and the Committee on Rules and Administration, to use on a reimbursable basis the services of personnel, information, and facilities of any such department or agency, (5) to procure the temporary services (not in excess of one year) or intermittent services of individual consultants, or oragnizations thereof, (6) to interview employees of the Federal, State, and local governments and other individuals, and (7) to take depositions and other testimony. Provides that the minority shall receive fair consideration in the appointment of staff personnel pursuant to this resolution. Limits the expenses of the committee under this resolution to $399,000.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1974
Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to require, under the Social Security Act, that skilled nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities adopt and make public a statement of the rights and responsibilities of the patients who are receiving treatment in such facilities and treat their patients in accordance with the provisions of such public statement. Provides that the Secretary shall require that the statement include specified items including: (1) a guarantee that the patient's civil and religious liberties will not be infringed; (2) a guarantee of the patient's right to have private and unrestricted communications with his physician, attorney, and any other person; (3) a guarantee of the patient's rights to present grievances on behalf of himself or others; (4) a guarantee of the patient's right to manage his own financial affairs, or have a monthly accounting of any financial transactions in his behalf; (5) a guarantee of the patient's right to receive at least adequate and appropriate medical care, to be fully informed of his medical condition and proposed treatment, and to participate in the planning of all medical treatment; (6) a guarantee of the patient's right to have privacy in treatment for personal needs, confidentiality in the treatment of records, and security in storing personal possessions.; (7) a guarantee of the patient's right to receive courteous, fair, and equal treatment and services and a written statement of the services provided by the facility; (8) a guarantee of the patients's right to be free from mental and physical abuse and from physical and chemical restraints; (9) a statement of the facility's regulations and an explanation of the patient's responsibility to obey all reasonable regulations; the patient be adjudicated incompetent in accordance with State law and not be restored to legal capacity, the above rights and responsibilities shall devolve upon a sponsor or guardian.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1974
Increases to $275,000 (now $255,000) the expenditures authorized for the Senate Select Committees on Nutrition and Human Needs to carry out its study pursuant to S. Res. 50, 93rd Congress pertaining to the lack of food, medical assistance, and other related necessities of life and health.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1974
Meetinghouse Preservation Act - States that the purpose of this Act is: (1) to celebrate the Bicentennial of this country through the preservation within each of the several States of a historic site that might otherwise be lost; (2) to provide a meetingplace in each of the several States for those citizens interested in retaining their tangible, indigenous heritage, whether historic, cultural, or natural, and in planning for future changes and developments, and (3) to give existing State programs involved with preserving historic and architecturally important structures an illustration of the best possible techniques used in the preservation of such historic sites and structures, and the multiple, significant ways in which such sites and structures can be used. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make grants to each of the several States for the purpose of enabling each State to acquire and restore an historic site within each State for use as a meetinghouse in accordance with the provisions of this Act, except that no grant to any one State shall exceed $1,000,000. Provides that any application for a grant under this Act shall contain an estimated budget of various acquisition, restoration, and maintenance expenses. Sets forth provisions governing the approval of any application. Establishes a Meetinghouse Coordination Board to review each application made in accordance with the provisions of this Act for the purpose of making recommendations to the Secretary as to which of the historic site or sites contained in such application should be approved by the Secretary. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1974
Older Americans Tax Counseling Assistance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into agreements with private or public nonprofit agencies or organizations for the purpose of providing training and technical assistance to prepare volunteers to provide tax counseling assistance for elderly individuals in the preparation of their Federal income tax returns. Directs the Secretary to utilize the services of volunteers and to establish the qualifications required and the terms and conditions of service as a volunteer. States that service as a volunteer under this Act shall not be considered service as an employee of the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to direct the attention of elderly individuals to pertinent provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1974
Makes it the sense of the Congress: (1) that new efforts should be made by the Government of the United States through appropriate diplomatic and international channels to persuade the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam, and the Lao Patriotic Front to comply with their obligations with respect to personnel captured or killed during the Vietnam conflict and with respect to personnel still in a missing status; (2) that every effort should be made to obtain the cooperation of the various Cambodian authorities in providing information with respect to personnel missing in Cambodia; and (3) that further efforts should be made to obtain necessary cooperation for search teams to inspect crash sites and other locations where personnel may have been lost.
United States · United States Congress · 21 December 1973
National Arthritis Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to expand the authority of the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Disgestive Diseases in order to advance a national attack on arthritis. Establishes a National Task Force on Arthritis to formulate a long-range plan to combat arthritis and related musculoskeletal and other related diseases. Provides that the Arthritis Plan shall include recommendations for the utilization and organizations of national resources for the campaign against arthritis, and a program for the National Institute of Arthritis Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases as a major participant in the campaign against arthritis specifies the composition of the Task Force membership. Authorizes to be appropriated $500,000 for fiscal years 1974 and 1975 to carry out the purposes of the national arthritis program. Establishes within the Institute the position of Associate Director for Arthritis, responsible for programs regarding arthritis within such Institute. Provides that the Director of the National Institutes of Health shall establish an Inter-Institute Arthritis Coordinating Committee to be composed of representatives who can make policy commitments for each of the Institutes and divisions involved in arthritis-related research. Creates within the Federal Government an Interagency Technical Committee on Arthritis which shall be responsible for promoting the coordination of those aspects of all Federal health programs and activities relating to arthritis to assure the adequacy and technical soundness of such programs and activities and to provide for the full communication and exchange of information necessary to maintain adequate coordination of such programs and activities. States that the Director of the Institute shall establish programs for cooperation with other health agencies in the screening, detection, prevention, and control of arthritis which emphasize the development of new diagnostic and treatment methods for arthritis, and the dissemination of the knowledge about these methods to the health professions. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out these provisions $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Provides that the Director of the Institute, shall provide for the development of centers for basic and clinical research into, training, in, and demonstration of, advanced diagnostic, prevention, control, and treatment methods for arthritis. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out these provisions $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Requires the Director of the Institute after the end of each calendar year, to submit to the President and Congress a report including: (1) a proposal for the Institute's activities during the next five years; and (2) a program evaluation section.
United States · United States Congress · 17 December 1973
Extends the authorization of appropriations for the Cabinet Committee on Opportunities for Spanish Speaking People through fiscal year 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 17 December 1973
Surveillance Practices and Procedures Act - Expresses the findings and declarations of Congress, including that Congress should establish practices and procedures to be followed by the Government when engaging in surveillance activities so as to reconcile the Government's interest in executing its investigative, law enforcement, and other functions with the Congressional and public interests in protecting the integrity of the individual's right to privacy and other constitutional rights and liberties. Defines the term "foreign agent". Provides that no officer or employee of the United States shall engage in the exercise of any powers by means involving the interception of wire or oral communications unless such officer or employee is first specifically authorized in writing, by the President. Requires authorization for interception of wire or oral communications in national security cases. Sets forth the procedure for interception of such communications relating to national security by requiring applications for an order authorizing or approving the interception of a wire or oral communication to be made in writing upon oath or affirmation to a judge of competent jurisdiction. Specifies the content required in any such application.
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 1973
Provides that the Administrator of the General Services Administration may enter into multiyear lease contracts only in the amounts applicable during each year's contract performance. (Adds 40 U.S.C. 759 (h))